AuthorTopic: LED Bulbs that work well with X10 (Read 17888 times)

With the faze out of the standard incandescent light bulb there has been lots of development with light bulbs.It appears the LED may be the winner in the bulb war.Many users here have had good experience with different brands some have even experimented looking for the best brand for their setups.Hopefully they will post their successful bulb findings here as well for future reference.

Here is a list of LED bulbs X10 has tested with their modules with success:

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For those wanting to switch to LED, this is good information. I found that the stores local to me (Seattle) have continued to carry essentially the same stock in bulbs to date. I asked and they indicated they were just continuing to sell what was already produced. I did a bit of research and found that there's been a couple changes in the US as far as enforcement of this "ban".

1) When the US gov't had the sequester, the agency that was tasked with enforcing this ban was essentially defunded. As a result, there was noone to make anyone comply. After this sequester ended, I don't know if they have stepped back up, by no stores have changed stock in any way local to me.

2) When it came down to the deadline, the gov't modified the "ban" to be slightly less restrictive. As a result, incandescent bulbs with halogen bulbs inside (hybrid incandescent I guess) are efficient enough to pass. These bulbs are not as cheap as the original banned bulb, but they are certainly cheaper than LED.

I don't know how this affects other countries (probably doesn't). So, those that want LED's can use this thread as a guide for what to get. Those that don't, know that there are some form of incandescent available. And, everyone should know that twisty bulbs are still evil (bad for X10, bad for environment, bad light...simply bad).

I have tested the 72 watt halogen replacement for the old 100 watt incandescent bulbs. They act the same as the older ones on X10 and other brand dimmers. Depending on which old 100 watt bulb model. They are about the same lumen output as some and slightly less with other brands.

One point if you use the halogen replacement. Read the added cautions label on the box to keep you out of problems, with where you are using them.

I have been using Cree LEDs since last November with x10 lamp modules, LM15A and wall switches. All work fine including the flood lamp type, outdoor string LEDs. CM15A has no problem controlling with macros.Most of the X10 modules are old (no ramp up).Exception being the candle bra type LED bulbs. I have four lamps controlled by one X10 wall switch. To make it work, I had to use one incandescent bulb.

So what is the consequence of dimming a non-dimmable LED just a touch win an LM-465? I don't care to lower the brightness of the LED's themselves, but I have rope light outside my front door area and I want to dim those down to about 9-10 out of the 12 setting (WM-100), but on the same run there are two colored (red/green) non-dimmable Phillips LED's. There is not much of a selection of dimmable color LED bulbs. When I dim the LM-465, the LED bulbs seem fine, they actually stay the same brightness down to 60%.